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Here may be seen the girder framework of a drum gate in the extreme raised position during erection. Hinges of the gate may be seen at the left end of each horizontal girder. The chamber in which the structure will float, on water admitted from...
2024-11-23
Outlet-gate service equipment used to place and remove overhead beams and hoist, for servicing outlet valves. Built by CBI, bought by Bureau.
1942-07-21
2024-11-23
Riggers attaching a sling to a large section of concrete wall between pits 8 and 7, preparatory to removal. The opening was required for coupling the Shasta turbine in pit No. 7 to the penstock in pit No. 8.
1942-05-26
2024-11-23
Installing coils and making connections at the junctions of the four sections of a Shasta stator, and testing the insulation of coils.
1942-08-21
2024-11-23
View of left powerhouse from the elevation 1180 construction trestle, showing transformer deck, transformers, portal frames, and lightning arresters at left.
1941-06-30
2024-11-23
Interior view of the left powerhouse, with the installation of the thrust bearing for the 108,000 kv.-a. generator in progress in bay L-3.
1941-07-05
2024-11-23
Main unit L-3 turbine runner (water-wheel) suspended over turbine pit in left powerhouse, and about to be lowered into position.
1941-04-26
2024-11-23
Engineers checking anchor hinge alignment for drug gate #11 (bay #1);
1941-02-12
2024-11-23
Spinning a web of steel bars for the reinforcement of the drum gate chamber concrete.
1940-07-12
2024-11-23
A main unit penstock inlet transition form is lowered into position upstream and adjoining the steel penstock inner section No. 1-2.
1938-11-09
2024-11-23
Dragline and shovel excavating east of block 40.
1937-03-26
2024-11-23
Concrete finishing at bottom of "bucket" at toe of spillway - elevation 870, radius 50 feet. End of 950 elevation placing trestle at right.

2024-11-23
Two conveyor laterals running to collecting belt at the 1840 level in Brett gravel pit."Pendulum" 200-foot arm in lower right.
1936-09-01
2024-11-23
Here is shown the removal of the downstream section of the west cofferdam below the now-completed block 40. This will permit the river to flow thru the completed section of the dam off to the right, and enter its old channel to the left. The...
2024-11-23
The station service transformer room of the left powerhouse. The transformers, each of 500 kv.-a. capacity, step down energy generated at 6900 volts to 460 volts, for operation of machinery in the power plant.
1942-01-10
2024-11-23
Lowering the turbine runner for the L-7 Shasta turbine into place. The wheel is seen as it is entering the well at El. 979. The weight of the runner with its 38" shaft is about 85 tons.
1942-10-15
2024-11-23
Concrete on its way to placement in the walls of the east powerhouse. The view shows the mixing plant; the skipway; and a crane lifting a concrete bucket to a railroad below, from which another crane will pick it up and place it.
1942-07-20
2024-11-23
Work on the east powerhouse transformer deck, done by Consolidated Builders Inc. on an extra work order.
1942-01-14
2024-11-23
A passenger leaving the 4,000-pound capacity elevator in the control bay of the west powerhouse. The machine can be operated either with or without an attendant, and travels about 180 feet. A 10,000-pound capacity freight elevator is in service in...
1942-09-22
2024-11-23
Bolting and riveting in progress on drum gate #1 (bay #11)
1941-01-28
2024-11-23
An 18-foot diameter penstock liner section ready to be installed in one of the nine penstock tunnels of the left group.
1940-02-20
2024-11-23
One of the two 350-ton traveling cranes installed in the left powerhouse.
1940-06-28
2024-11-23
Trashrack structures for protecting the intakes to the main unit penstocks. A steel rack or grill is being lowered into position
1939-12-01
2024-11-23
"Bell-Boy" telephoning signals from concrete block to crane operator on high trestle.
2024-11-23
2024-11-23
Erecting girder of elevation 1024 trestle, June 03, 1937
1937-06-03
2024-11-23
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